Site Guide: Plate Tectonics

This site guide provides access to course descriptions, activity examples, and visualizations for teaching Plate Tectonics. It also provides access to collections that focus on teaching plate tectonics with data.

Click the images above to browse teaching activities and course descriptions related to Plate Tectonics. Collections are contributed by faculty and may include service learning projects, writing assignments, field trips, course descriptions and syllabi.

Working with Data

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MARGINS Mini-lesson Collection - The MARGINS project focuses on understanding processes governing the evolution of continental margins. MARGINS Mini-Lessons are modular learning materials that repurpose the data resources, visualizations, and other information sources developed through MARGINS and MARGINS-related research for use in examining fundamental earth processes in undergraduate classrooms from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Teaching with Data, Simulations, and Models - This collection of pages provides resources to help faculty use data, simulations, and models effectively and easily, and contains access to teaching materials and tips from the classroom and literature about the supporting pedagogy. It includes ideas for teaching as well as offers a collection of about 30 data sheets (a data sheet concisely describes a particular scientific data set in a way that is useful to educators interested in teaching with the data set) and a section on tools useful for simulations, several of which involve plate tectonics.